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Norge battled storm 25 hrs before landing at Teller
Seneca (S S) hits wreckage off Miami, Fla, and springs leak; 235 passengers removed
NOME, Alaska, May 16 (AP). -- Captain Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Captain Oscar Wisting and Lieutenant Oskar Omdal of the crew of seventeen of the dirigible Norge, arrived here from Teller, seventy-five miles northwest, in the launch Pippin, at 5 A.M. today.
Byrd's story (cont); Byrd orders expedition to prepare for return home; Byrd lauded in churches
1926David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, English-Scottish soldier and politician (died 2023)[†]
David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, was a Scottish landowner, soldier, banker and peer.
1926Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2014)[†]
Dietmar Otto Schönherr was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1944 and 2014. He was famous for playing the role of Major Cliff Allister McLane in the German science fiction series Raumpatrouille. He was born in Innsbruck, Austria. He was married to the Danish actress Vivi Bach from 1965 until her death in 2013. In 2011 he was awarded with the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class.
1926Franz Sondheimer, German-English chemist and academic (died 1981)[†]
Franz Sondheimer FRS was a German-born British professor of chemistry. In 1960, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his contributions to science.